Urgh. One day, I'll have to try and read these again. My dad shoved them (really old editions of these) in my face quite a few times as I was a teenager, and it never really clicked for me.And one for the physics list (hope Vorpal will agree):
Name: The Feynman Lectures on Physics
Author: Richard P. Feynman, Leighton, Sands
Date: 1963-65
Subject: physics, pure awesomeness of RPF
Category: Physics
Level: undergraduate
These are IMO the authoritative physics textbooks. Also available online for free.
Haha My dad did exactly the same thing when I was about 17 or 18 yo (there are Slovak translations and he, of course, has them). I read some of it and it was absolutely wonderful compared to our usual textbooks with a lot of equations and very few explanations. Then I read some more of it when I was at the uni, and since then I read some of them (now usually the English original) from time to time, just for fun. Some I get, some I don't, but it's always an interesting read.Urgh. One day, I'll have to try and read these again. My dad shoved them (really old editions of these) in my face quite a few times as I was a teenager, and it never really clicked for me.
Yeah, took me some time but I eventually recognized physics ain't my thing. It just doesn't feel enjoyable.Haha My dad did exactly the same thing when I was about 17 or 18 yo (there are Slovak translations and he, of course, has them). I read some of it and it was absolutely wonderful compared to our usual textbooks with a lot of equations and very few explanations. Then I read some more of it when I was at the uni, and since then I read some of them (now usually the English original) from time to time, just for fun. Some I get, some I don't, but it's always an interesting read.
I'm excluding politics here, subjects linked to politics are allowed, I guess philosophy?Anthem by ayn rand.
Ok, I'll have to check that one out, just noticed the sites it's hosted on. Mises are...quite extreme, they range from "massively shrink the government" to "abolish the government" in views.OK, I've got one for the economics section:
Name: An Enquiry Into the Nature and Effects of the Paper Credit of Great Britain
Author: Henry Thornton
Date: 1802
Subject: economics, money, banking, credit
Category: Economics
Level: popular
This one is very old, but that's what is good about it - it explains the beginnings of the modern banking system, without all the modern complications. Very good source for understanding the fundamentals of our banking system, and its evolution (I usually have a problem to understand a topic until I know how it has evolved and the reasons for its existence).
Another good thing about this book is that since it's so old, it can be downloaded online for free. There are several editions with annotations, forewords by modern economists...
An online source, another one...
I don't know either of the sites, it's what google gave me. I've read the book and it's pretty apolitical (and predating modern economic policies by over 100 years), but by all means check it.Ok, I'll have to check that one out, just noticed the sites it's hosted on. Mises are...quite extreme, they range from "massively shrink the government" to "abolish the government" in views.
Liberty Fund looks the same.
Mises is definitely ultra-liberal, in the economic sense of the word. It's as if 40kninjas had a home page.I don't know either of the sites, it's what google gave me. I've read the book and it's pretty apolitical (and predating modern economic policies by over 100 years), but by all means check it.
Oh the horrorIt's as if 40kninjas had a home page.